Re: c2244 and namespace error.

From:
 "cablepuff@gmail.com" <cablepuff@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:51:40 -0000
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<1192081900.807507.78040@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 10, 2:15 pm, "Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <r...@nospam.nospam> wrote:

<cablep...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1192046830.793792.190220@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

On Oct 10, 12:36 pm, Norbert Unterberg <nunterb...@newsgroups.nospam>
wrote:

cablep...@gmail.com schrieb:

Recently i did some compilation test that resulted in C2244 unable to
match function declaration and function definition.

example..

inside the hpp file.
namespace something {
template <typename T,
         template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
         class CONT
extern void select_sort(CONT<T>&, typename CONT<T>::iterator, const
typename CONT<T>::size_type&, const typename CONT<T>::size_type&);

}

inside the c file

template <typename T,
         template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
         class CONT
void Something::select_sort(CONT<T>& array, typename CONT<T>::iterator


        ^^^^^^^^^

something instead of Something?

Norbert


yeah my bad.. i tried that with anoynomus namespace too..
hmm and without extern keyword


anonymous namespace won't work: it is specific to each compilation unit and
is the opposite of extern. C uses the keyword "static" for this, anon
namespace is the C++ way.

I still get c2244 error.

k i did some more testing and track the pattern of my compile error.

I notice that you can't have "void" return in namespace template
declaration and definition.

example

SortingAlgo.hpp

namespace algocpw
{
/*********************************************
     * sifts the array, makes changes to it *
     * @param arr the array *
     * @param start the index to start at *
     * @param count the number of time to sift *
     *********************************************/
    template <
         typename T,
         template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
         class CONT

    void sift(CONT<T>*, typename CONT<T>::iterator, const int&);
}

SortingAlgodef.hpp

template <
         typename T,
         template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
         class CONT

void algocpw::sift(CONT<T>* arr, typename CONT<T>::iterator start,
const int& count)
{
   typedef typename CONT<T>::iterator iter;
   iter root(start);
   iter child;
   while ((std::distance(arr->begin(), root)*2+1) < count)
   {
         child = boost::next(arr->begin(), std::distance(arr->begin(),
root) * 2 + 1);
         if (std::distance(arr->begin(), child) < count-1 &&
               *child < *boost::next(child, 1))
            ++child;
         if (*root < *child)
         {
            std::iter_swap(root, child);
            root = child;
         }
         else
            return;
   }
}

visual studio gives this error

../cs512/c++/cppdef/sortingAlgo.cpp(123) : error C2244:
'algocpw::sift' : unable to match function definition to an existing
declaration
        c:\cpw\msvc\cs512\c++\cppdef\../sortingAlgo.hpp(81) : see
declaration of 'algocpw::sift'

A fix to this problem would be

namespace algocpw
{
     // put the definition in here.
    template <
         typename T,
         template <typename ELEM, typename = std::allocator<ELEM> >
         class CONT

void sift(CONT<T>* arr, typename CONT<T>::iterator start, const int&
count)
{
   typedef typename CONT<T>::iterator iter;
   iter root(start);
   iter child;
   while ((std::distance(arr->begin(), root)*2+1) < count)
   {
         child = boost::next(arr->begin(), std::distance(arr->begin(),
root) * 2 + 1);
         if (std::distance(arr->begin(), child) < count-1 &&
               *child < *boost::next(child, 1))
            ++child;
         if (*root < *child)
         {
            std::iter_swap(root, child);
            root = child;
         }
         else
            return;
   }
}
}

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